Tales from the Trenches
February 6, 2026
As loyal readers would expect, I don’t leave the house without a notepad and a camera in hand. You never know what you might miss.
I’ve been at this for some time. Including the period during my 20-plus-year career in IT, dating back to my time in the Old Country. Actually, I should qualify that. During most of that career. There were times when I would only take notes occasionally. Other times, I wasn’t taking notes at all. Such as the times when one of my colleagues with a propensity to randomly fart around the office would stop at our desks and pontificate on all sorts of topics. “DNA cloning isn’t all that hard,” was one of his winning lines. Privately, we began calling him Cliff after the Cheers character of the same name. Our Cliff also had a serious crush on a female colleague, who, in turn, was openly cavorting with her much older male boss. She even took to wearing falsies on casual Friday to impress him. We began to call it, “Big Friday.”
Sadly, the details of this love triangle are lost to the sands of time. But there were many other stories which I did capture and in considerable detail. This collection of more than 500 pages of notes became the source of my latest book, Tales from the Trenches: Diary of an Abused IT Consultant.
Included are many stories about the many colleagues and employers I crossed paths with, along with a good number of oddball experiences along the way. Many of those colleagues were nice and some became lifelong friends. Others, however, were downright obnoxious. It was much the same with bosses and employers. Some earned my respect. Sadly, most did not.
Many places and names have been changed, but it is otherwise a true story.
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